{"id":273359,"date":"2011-01-10T15:16:15","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T15:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=46004"},"modified":"2011-01-10T15:16:15","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T15:16:15","slug":"mills-makes-a-mockery-of-a-supreme-courts-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/10\/mills-makes-a-mockery-of-a-supreme-courts-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Mills Makes a Mockery of a Supreme Court&#8217;s Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many are beginning to wonder if  President Mills is actually his own man. Is he currently in his right  frame of mind as compared to when he was a lecturer at the University of  Ghana?<br \/>\nHe is though intellectually knowledgeable enough to  understand the democratic principles of his office; he allows his  thoughts to be manipulated by the undemocratic principles of certain  individuals within the NDC? Does he understand, and can he differentiate  between the distinctive functions of the organs of government, that is,  the Executive, the Legislature and the Judiciary in a democratic State?  I am afraid not.<br \/>\nPresident Mills being usually slow, and  permanently distracted through needless castigation by Rawlings and his  ilk, may not know. President Mills having been shot into political  limelight by the lawless<br \/>\ncowboy-NDC party, any Tom, Dick and Harry  within the party thinks to be able to dictate to him. Although he is not  a cat hunter as Nana Dr.Okumkrah Kwabena Adjei, the NDC Chairman, he  may soon become one the longer he stays in NDC interacting with the  likes of Dr. Kwabena Adjei, Asiedu Nketia (General Mosquito)and Togbe  Avaklasu.<br \/>\nPresident Mills in answer to a question posed at the  Editors Forum as to his rumoured intention to seek to relief the Chief  Justice of her duties said, &#8220;Stay where you are. Look at my face and  listen to my voice. Do I look and sounds like a cat hunter?&#8221; By this  joke, he is distancing himself from the evil intentions of some members  of his party. But it is said, &#8220;He that lies down with dogs will rise up  with<br \/>\nfleas&#8221; He may not only become a cat hunter but a feline eater  the longer he stays in NDC with the type of Kwabena Adjeis surrounding  him.<br \/>\nWhat powers has he as a President of a democratic State to  overrule or purport to overrule the decision of the country&#8217;s Supreme  Court? Unless he sees himself as a typical lawless NDC fanatic same as  Togbe Avaklasu Rawlings and the supposed ankle, knee, leg or foot  soldiers, that have no respect for the tenets of democracy, he could be  said to have goofed big time at the Editors Forum held at the Castle on<br \/>\nFriday, 7th January 2011.<br \/>\nHe  had responded to a question put to him by Kwami Sefa Kayi of the Peace  FM&#8217;s flagship morning show, Kookrokoo, by saying,&#8221; Let nobody forget  that NDC has December 31st as one of its founding days. I cannot change  it&#8230;Other political parties may have founders day that they are not  even disclosing and they may be associated with something else. But what  I&#8217;m saying is that, I<br \/>\nbelong to NDC; this is the party\u2019s Founding  Day and if people decide to celebrate it, I will encourage them to do  so. Pure and Simple!\u201d<br \/>\nPresident Mills is currently the First  Citizen of Ghana but he has not the mandate to flout the laws of the  land at whim. He cannot govern by whim. It will be recalled that the  Supreme Court ruling at the end of 1993 banned the public commemoration  of the 31st December 1981 Revolution with State funds. There seems to a  Cenotaph erected at the Jubilee\/Flagstaff House where Rawlings, his  wife, and the NDC lots<br \/>\nhave been laying wreaths to the memory of the  supposed fallen comrades of the 31st December 1981 Revolution since Mr.  Kakra Fiifi Evans John Atta Mills took over as the President of the  Republic of Ghana.<br \/>\nIs the State not somehow sponsoring the  celebrations where the seat of government is always made available for  the lawless NDC guys to congregate to chant their war songs, beat their  chests like domineering male chimps marking out their territories after  which wreaths are laid? What does President Mills take Ghanaians for by  saying, he will encourage his NDC family to celebrate the 31st December  1981 Coup d&#8217;\u00e9tat? Does he understand that the Coup d&#8217;\u00e9tat was not only  illegal but maimed and killed a lot of Ghanaians physically, mentally  and psychologically?<br \/>\nDoes Ghana belong to only the NDC family?  Indeed, he is the father of all. By his actions, discerning Ghanaians  are able to tell who actually he is. Does he actually understand the  checks and balances as pertained under true democratic systems where  each organ of government operates independently from one another? How  and why then does he think to possess the power to disregard the Supreme  Court&#8217;s decision? It must be made clear to President Mills without  mincing words that Ghana is no longer under the dictatorial &#8220;Nkrumah  Show boy&#8221; rule as stringently applied and epitomized by his Godfather  J.J. Rawlings. Supreme Court decisions are far superior to, and do  override those of a President where clarifications are sought in the  event of policy<br \/>\nlitigation.<br \/>\nDid President Mills unanimously  agree with his ECOWAS Heads of State on the passage of a resolution to  remove the Ivorian President, Laurent Gbagbo, from office through  military intervention in the event of persuasion failing? If he did, why  is he reneging on his promise when indeed the situation has become  precarious? Is he such a coward and a traitor? Does he fear it will be a  recipe for disaster for future Africa Dictator Heads of State of whom  Rawlings, his master, once was and always aspires to be?<br \/>\nEven a  dickhead knows that Laurent Gbagbo is also trying hard to avail himself  of Power Sharing. If Kenya and Zimbabwe have done it, why not he, one  may ask? Will such power sharing not become the order of Africa  democracy if tolerated? Will it not in the end negate the benefits of  true democracy by indirectly opening a door for Africa dictators to  continually legitimize their position? The ECOWAS and UN are trying on  the other hand to prevent such rubbish from gaining roots or ramifying  in Africa where dictator Heads of State abound. Rawlings had to be  persuaded to hand over government to Kufuor even though he had come to  the end of his two-term period and was himself not a contestant in the  election. If he was, he would surely have<br \/>\ndone Mugabe of Zimbabwe, Emilio Mwai Kibaki of Kenya, or Laurent Gbagbo of Ivory Coast.<br \/>\nLet  us support the decision taken by President Mills on the issue of Ivory  Coast if and only if, it is in the long term best interest of Ghana.  Remember the maritime location of Ghana&#8217;s much hyped commercial  oil-find. The less I talk about this, the much better. To those NDC  government Ministers with diarrheic mouths I say, &#8220;Better is the poor<br \/>\nthat walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool&#8221;<br \/>\nProverbs  19:1. I am a cocoa farmer&#8217;s son, come from the Ashanti Region so I feel  greatly hurt when these na\u00efve baby-face NDC government Ministers run  their foul-mouth against my kind. How unscrupulous can they be? Bite ye  not the finger that feeds thee but these NDC guys are doing the very  opposite. At the opportune time in 2012, they will be shown the exit.<br \/>\nSource: Rockson Adofo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many are beginning to wonder if President Mills is actually his own man. Is he currently in his right frame of mind as compared to when he was a lecturer at the University of Ghana? 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